cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/twitterblueskymastodon/p/1368791/nothing-to-hide-is-how-free-countries-die
Stop saying stupid stuff like: "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear."
Start saying: "A free country doesn't track innocent citizens."
Source: Mastodon.
I would go further. I think an optimal society needs a little bit of crime. The boundary between legal and illegal shoudn't be fully enforced, because the definitions of legal and illegal are somewhat arbitrary and should be subject to change. A functioning society needs to have some sort of margin of error to allow the laws to evolve over time.
What I mean is that there isn't anything wrong with having things to hide. Laws aren't perfect and not all change can happen fully in the open fron start to end.